358: Mental Health: Anxiety
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Racing thoughts? Chronic stress? Physical dis-ease? Most of us turn to distractions to avoid the pain and discomfort of anxiety and stressors. What if we could learn to embrace our emotions and see them as part of the healing journey? Greg Schmaus is a Holistic Health Practitioner with an expertise in healing the mind. His protocols include nutrition, movement, meditation and a number of lifestyle practices.
Today, Greg emphasizes the importance of allowing ourselves to actually experience our emotions instead of tamping them down. Greg talks about how we can train the mind, almost as we would train a puppy, and learn to sit with it and grow from it. He also opens up and shares his own story and how he's been able to address his own mental health struggles and to help many others.
Visit Greg's website here: healing4d.com
Check out the upcoming events for the Weston A. Price Foundation.
See our sponsors: Redmond Real Salt, Paleo Valley, Optimal Carnivore
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| 0:00.0 | Anxiety is not a feeling. Anxiety is the avoidance of feeling. |
| 0:04.0 | So a lot of times when you say, I feel anxious, it's no, there's actually something right beneath that that you don't want to feel. |
| 0:10.0 | So your anxiety is like your attempt to jump outside of yourself. |
| 0:20.0 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:28.0 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey! Hilda here! The minute we feel anxious or sad, a lot of us reach for something to distract us. |
| 0:48.0 | But what if sitting with a discomfort could actually facilitate healing? |
| 0:52.0 | This is episode 358 and our guest today is Greg Schmouse. |
| 0:56.0 | Greg is a holistic health practitioner who puts an emphasis on healing the mind through the use of nutrition, movement, meditation, and a number of lifestyle practices. |
| 1:06.0 | Today we discuss with Greg how healing is within reach through simple practical ways. |
| 1:12.0 | Greg emphasizes allowing ourselves to experience the emotions we feel and actually live in the moment. |
| 1:20.0 | There is power in not drowning out our feelings but rather embracing them as part of the healing journey. |
| 1:26.0 | Greg also offers specific tips for managing racing thoughts, chronic stress, and physical stressors. |
| 1:32.0 | And he opens up to us about his own story and mental health struggles. |
| 1:38.0 | Before we dive into the conversation, I want to invite you to check out our upcoming events on the events page of the website. |
| 1:44.0 | Sally, for example, is speaking about the contagion myth in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia in April. |
| 1:50.0 | Then she's offering a talk on nourishing diets on her farm in Maryland on May 1st. |
| 1:54.0 | The following weekend, I'm hosting an event with Sally, Dell Big Tree, Charles Eisenstein, and Joel Salatin at Polyphase. |
| 2:02.0 | So go to WestinayPrice.org slash events for details and registration info. |
| 2:08.0 | And I hope to see you this spring. |
| 2:10.0 | And a shout out to Redmond Salt. |
| 2:12.0 | I never used to give salt a second thought. It really was just something to add to food that was bland. |
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